Biding one's time is a very different thing from patience.

- E. L. Konigsburg

Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.

- E. L. Konigsburg

I am convinced that not only do children need children's books to fine-tune their brains, but our civilization needs them if we are not going to unpl…

- E. L. Konigsburg

Talk was like the vitamins of our friendship: Large daily doses kept it healthy.

- E. L. Konigsburg

Lying in bed just before going to sleep is the worst time for organized thinking; it is the best time for free thinking. Ideas drift like clouds in a…

- E. L. Konigsburg

Silence does for thinking what a suspension bridge does for space -- it makes connections.

- E. L. Konigsburg

When you hug someone, you learn something else about them. An important something else.

- E. L. Konigsburg

Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

- E. L. Konigsburg

It often takes more courage to be a passenger than a driver.

- E. L. Konigsburg